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Situated in Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland, this multifaceted nature park covers an area of 2,055 square kilometres where Germany borders France and Luxembourg.
From the heights of the Rhenish-Westphalian Slate Mountains in Hunsrück up to 816 metres above sea-level, to the sun-kissed vineyards of the Moselle, Saar, Ruwer and Nahe valleys, nature has thrown up bizarre rock formations, deep gorges and some beautiful landscapes as it has evolved over the millennia. Particularly impressive are the Hangbrücher moors in the Hunsrück region. Then there are the imposing cliff and rock formations made of fossil-flecked limestone, Bunter sandstone, slate and Taunus quartz, as well as those created by volcanic activity.
A diverse range of flora includes narcissi, arnica, orchids and orchards, while extensive woodland and a network of hedgerows and borders provides a habitat for kingfishers, dragonflies, wildcats, beavers and deer.
The area is never short of things to do – from trying out the local food and drink, to day trips, walking, or cycling along the river, to hiking on the best long-distance route in Germany, the Saar-Hunsrück Trail, or on other quality-certified trails. From the area around Perl on the Upper Moselle, via the Saar Bow geotope and Idar-Oberstein (Germany's gemstone capital), to the dramatic Hunsrück region or the Roman city of Trier, walkers on the Saar-Hunsrück Trail and the Saar-Hunsrück 'dream loops' can expect ever-changing landscapes, stunning views, natural beauty, cultural treasures and a sense of peace and tranquillity.
And the culinary landscape is equally diverse, with a variety of food festivals devoted to local specialities such as dandelion, mushrooms and bear's garlic, apples, wine and cider, potatoes and game …
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Get My Batsuit, Alfred!
This story appears in the March 2000 issue of . Subscribe »
Think you want to be a personal concierge? Clients will probably ask you to plan meetings, schedule tee-times, or even locate and pre-screen child-care centers.
You're OK with that? They may also ask you to purchase a piece of jewelry for their anniversary with their mistress, plan a birthday party for their cat (complete with cake and party hats), hire an Elvis imper-sonator for a bachelor party, or move a batch of horse sperm through customs without proper documentation. And don't be surprised if they inquire as to whether you perform "unprintable acts."
Personal concierges have encountered these situations and many--yes, very many--more. If you're a true professional, you do it all (except for the unprintable acts), you do it pronto, and you do it with a smile.
"You have to be a bit of an actress," says 32-year-old Cheryl Lentz, owner and sole proprietor of Concierge Corporate Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "You must be willing to bend over backwards and stay professional when you hear outlandish requests."
If you've got the kind of personality that loves people no matter how loony they are and you enjoy the challenge of fulfilling every imaginable request, then you've got the tough part down. The rest is chocolate cake.
First, the market is waiting for you. The ranks of the desperately time-starved are growing faster than you can say "Fetch me a cab." More American women are working outside the home than ever before--about 78 percent, according to the Families and Work Institute. This is putting a greater strain on the free time families have together. In addition, everyone else seems to be working longer hours; most spend 44 hours a week on the job. And people putting in 10- to 12-hour days are eager for anything that makes their lives easier.
That means they're eager to pay for the services of a personal concierge. Personal concierges charge by the hour or by the service, and those who specialize in corporate services often charge a retainer fee. Annual income for a concierge can range from $50,000 to $125,000 or more, depending on the type of business, its location, the services offered and other factors, says Sara Ann Kasner, president of the National Concierge Association (NCA) in Chicago.
Capitol Concierge in Washington, DC, one of the oldest personal concierge services, generated revenues of $5.2 million from cli-ents nationwide in 1999. Founder Mary Naylor, now 36, started the business in 1987 with just $2,000.
Pamela Rohland, a time-starved writer in Bernville, Pennsylvania, wonders if she could hire a personal concierge to write magazine articles for her.
Service Inc.
While harried individuals are finding they need personal concierges, even more businesses are hiring them to help ease busy employees' loads. A pampered employee is a happy employee who will want to stay with the company--an important consideration in today's tight labor market. Consulting firms, high-tech companies, accounting firms, advertising agencies, law firms, hospitals and other businesses where employees work long hours are providing plenty of opportunities for corporate concierge services, according to Janet Kraus, 33-year-old CEO and co-founder of Circles Inc., a 3-year-old corporate concierge service in Boston. Some college campuses are hiring concierges to perform services for students and professors, such as scheduling car repairs or buying concert tickets.
Many concierges find the corporate market is their best bet, as big businesses welcome them with open arms--and open checkbooks. Stephen Filing, 31-year-old president of Corporate Concierge Services in Minneapolis and a former concierge for Pillsbury Corp. and Dayton Hudson department stores, concentrates on providing concierge services to office buildings, office parks and corporations. Started in August 1998, his company garnered $125,000 in sales in 1999 and provided suite management for the Minnesota Vikings.
Jeanne Clarey, 34, owner of Concierge Atelier, also in Minneapolis, was a teacher and day-care center director when she decided she wanted a profession that would allow for more personal growth. Her company, launched in 1996, assists other companies in putting together concierge programs for their staffs and even provides concierge services itself.
Getting Personal
While the personal concierge service industry is very new--most current businesses were launched in the mid- to late-1990s--its ranks are growing rapidly as the public becomes more familiar with the services a concierge can provide. That means concierges spend less time educating potential clients.
"In the past three years, the market has exploded. We've had requests on how to start a concierge business from as far away as London and Brazil," says Kasner. No one is sure exactly how many personal concierge services exist, but Kasner says the NCA's membership has quintupled in the past year and is now up to 100.
Not only is the market ready, willing and able to accept personal concierges, but the business doesn't require a great deal of start-up capital. Clarey launched her business with $200 spent on brochures and direct mail. The average start-up costs, however, are $2,000 to $5,000, which covers basic office equipment (computer, printer, business phone line, fax machine, basic software) and marketing tools.
Filing says he spent about $25,000, which also included a two-line phone with voice mail, a car, a cell phone, presentation materials for clients and the media, and six types of insurance (general liability, auto, worker's compensation, employer's liability, umbrella liability, and employee crime and property coverage).
Get Creative
Concierges are famous for their resourcefulness. So when Catherine Tabor, the 29-year-old owner of Atlanta's My Gal Friday Inc., squandered much of her $5,000 of start-up capital on unneeded consulting services, the budget-challenged young entrepreneur knew she needed to be creative in her marketing campaign.
"I bought a book that lists the top 25 women-owned businesses in Atlanta and wrote letters to the CEOs," she says. "I figured, They're busy." The response? "People wrote back and said `Where have you been all my life?' " Tabor recalls with a laugh. For a while, she performed services for individuals, such as gift wrapping, grocery shopping and taking pets to the vet. That all stopped when a dream client, Coca-Cola, based in Atlanta, knocked on her door. Tabor's business, which brings in $350,000 a year, now provides concierge services to major corporations such as Delta Technology Inc. and Cox Enterprises.
It's helpful, but not necessary, to have previous industry experience before starting a personal concierge business. But, the pros say, it's essential to be skilled at online research, since many client requests--such as planning an affordable romantic weekend on Martha's Vineyard in the middle of summer or locating the best dog walker in a particular town--can be fulfilled by performing a Web search. Aspiring concierges must also be resourceful, energetic, efficient and extremely committed to providing great customer service.
Location is another important consideration when starting a personal concierge business. It should be situated in or near an urban area where both individuals and businesses have disposable income. Lentz admits she's struggling to get her business off the ground in Albuquerque, the 40th poorest city in the United States.
Learning Curve
Because the industry is so young, there are few places one can go to learn the trade. Filing believes a good concierge is born, not made. Many of today's successful personal concierges had to learn the ropes from talking to other concierges.
Naylor is about to fill the concierge education niche. With 12 years as a concierge entrepreneur under her belt, she's a grandmother in this fledgling industry. Now that Capitol Concierge has established its services nationally, she's in the process of rolling out a program that will help her link partners with concierge businesses in their cities. Called VIP Desk.com, it's the first online concierge service.
One of its components is City Concierge Network, which provides links to concierges in local areas. Partners receive the support of a sales force and management team, plus a weekly update on what's hot in their markets. Naylor has counted 150 inquiries so far, and offices are being established in Atlanta, Dallas and New York City. "Our biggest challenge is finding great people who can execute consistently," she says.
Kraus admits there isn't a lot of mystery in figuring out what it takes to be a personal concierge. "A lot of what we do is everyday stuff," she acknowledges, "but having a concierge is like having a really smart person working on your behalf."
Get The Scoop
The following resources can give you more information on starting a concierge business:
- National Concierge Association (http://www.conciergeassoc.org, 312-782-6710)
- Ultimate Service: The Complete Handbook of the World of the Concierge ($40, 800-78-HOLLY), self-published by Holly Stiel, founder of the Mill Valley, California, concierge services firm Holly Speaks
As You Wish
Below, just a few of the things personal concierges have done in the name of customer service:
Planning something for a family to do during its "bonding time" (They couldn't come up with anything on their own?)
- Finding a plumber to fix a leaky washer on a weekend
- Getting tickets to a sold-out Elton John benefit concert
- Finding a new location for a full-scale wedding in two days after a hurricane put a damper on an outdoor tent idea
- Finding a way to transfer 10 tons of salt to Brazil
- Planning a trekking trip to Nepal
- Arranging a wedding ceremony in the Bahamas
- Searching out the best hot sauce in Texas
- Buying nutritious pet food for a tarantula
Contact Sources
Circles Inc., (617) 464-3535, http://www.circles.com
Concierge Atelier, (612 988-9439, http://www.conciergeatelier.com
Concierge Corporate Services, (505) 260-1839
Corporate Concierge Services, (612) 987-2456, http://www.mnconcierge.com
My Gal Friday Inc., (404) 892-6069

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Last week, we offered a free post anyone who could grab a Bruce Weber Bobblehead from a Schaumberg Flyers promotion. The blessed soul that is Jeff Kline, from a "hellhole of suburban vacuousness only seven miles away from Alexian Field," came through for us. So here's his free post, which has a noble goal: To get Andre Dawson into the Hall of Fame. And thanks, Jeff: Our dad is gonna LOVE the Weber bobblehead.
Two weeks ago Bruce Sutter was elected into the Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. Sutter was among a wave of pitchers that have completely altered the face of baseball and have turned the closer into an indispensable position for any contending team.
One face that was missing from the podium on that Sunday in upstate New York was Andre Dawson. Dawson garnered 61 percent of the vote this year, his highest total yet, but is soon to be joined on the ballot by the "better baseball by chemistry" generation.
"The Hawk" broke into the majors with Montreal in 1976 and spent the next ten seasons with Les Expos. Dawson was the 1977 Rookie of the Year and was a prototypical 5-tool player early in his career, routinely turning out 20-20 seasons when those kinds of numbers still meant something. The unforgiving turf at Olympic Stadium wreaked havoc on his knees and turned the fleet-footed center fielder into a right fielder with a cannon arm, and he was awarded the Gold Glove eight times during the 1980s. Dawson toiled in relative anonymity during his time in Montreal, overshadowed by contemporaries such as Dale Murphy, Mike Schmidt and Jack Clark, even playing second fiddle to Gary Carter in his own home park.
In 1987, in an effort to prolong his career by moving to grass and take advantage of his career success in Wrigley Field, Dawson approached the Chicago Cubs regarding a contract offer. Cubs GM Dallas Green was satisfied with Brian Dayett in right field and initially rebuffed Dawson's advances. Not to be deterred, as the legend goes, Dawson presented the Cubs with a blank contract and told them to fill in the salary. He signed a contract for $500,000 with $250,000 in performance bonuses. The Hawk responded with an MVP season, hitting .287 with 49 HR and 137 RBI and became the first player to win the MVP for a last place team. In 1993 Dawson signed with Boston and became only the second player (behind Willie Mays) in Major League Baseball history to hit 400 home runs and steal over 300 bases. He ended his career in 1996 with the Florida Marlins as a role player.
After his playing days were over, Dawson continued to work with the Florida Marlins as a special assistant and is active with the Marlins to this day. Ever the consummate team player, he went so far as shaving his signature mustache this off-season to comply with new manager Joe Girardi's no facial hair rule.
Compared to today's players, Dawson's numbers don't exactly raise eyebrows. He only hit 30+ homers three times and had over 100 RBI four times, but Dawson was a game changer. His menacing scowl at the plate coupled with a vicious swing made him one of the game's most feared hitters. However, in this day and age, Dawson would look out of place in the big leagues. His walk turned into more of a hobble and you could almost hear his knees squeak when he ran, yet he managed to play 21 seasons in the big leagues.
So BBWAA, do the right thing and put the Hawk in the Hall of Fame. Give the man his just reward and remember the last generation of players before baseball became more of a science project than a game, before 400 homers became a meaningless number that will be reached by many an average player.
Besides, who can forget the immortal words of Harry Caray, "Dawson spelled backwards is Nosewad"?
(Thanks, Jeff!)


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The market is being flooded with dystopian and post-apocalyptic novels aimed at tweens and teens, thanks to the success of Hunger Games and similar books. But Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick seems to stand out from the pack, by virtue of its weird premise and its author's background: Bick is a former Air Force Major and child psychologist, who's done a lot of research into Electromagnetic Pulses (EMPs).
We've got the first 100 pages of Ashes, exclusive for io9 readers. Here's the synopsis:
An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky, destroying every electronic device and killing billions. For those spared, it's a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human. Desperate to find out what happened and to avoid the Changed, Alex meets up with Tom-a young army veteran-and Ellie, a young girl whose grandfather was killed by the electromagnetic pulse. This improvised family will have to use every ounce of courage they have just to survive.
And here are the first 100 pages of Ashes, which is in stores Sept. 6:


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My paintings and drawings evolve from half-remembered glimpses seen from the corner of my eye, fleeting juxtapositions elusive to photography, the dislocated reverie of long car journeys, or from more studied compositions.
The landscape is my starting point, not as a picturesque or static view, but as a space travelled through and experienced often on the edges of the urban and the rural. It is a source of man made and natural structures, surfaces and colour from which my reductive personal responses develop. Man made structures in particular impose their presence: telegraph poles, fences, power lines, isolated buildings – structures that create tension within space and mark the passage of time and distance.
Process and materials are important to me as a way of allowing the paintings to emerge as objects in their own right. Structured and methodical approaches combined with spontaneous and intuitive reactions allow me to plan and take risks: to combine control with 'let's see what happens if…'
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Greetings to all the readers of this thread.
First, I just want so say some things.
English is not my native language so please excuse if you find any grammatic problems or other errors, but of course I try to avoid them.
To start with this, I really would like you to think about, how many time you want to invest.
You have to know that there isn't a set time when you will get it and you will very well spend few hundreds of hours only beeing there in deepholm and wait for it to spawn without a sign. Or you miss it and have to camp again. So please think about this.
If you know that you aren't very patient then it might be not the right thing to camp it all the time. You can just visit it for now and then and if it isn't up, then just go back to the things you want to do. The chance on getting this mount may be very low then, but you still have one. I will give you some tips how and where you have the biggest chances.
If you are experienced in camping, for example if you camped the Time-Lost Proto Drake before, then you know how things go and that you possibly have to invest a lot of time into it and informed yourself. But maybe there are some small things you weren't aware of, so just skip the "common knowledge" and look out for interesting parts.
If you spend some time in the World of Warcraft and want to try something new or you are amazed by the mount, then this guide will show you everything you need to know.
1. General Information
2. Spawnpoints
3. The fight
4. Theories
5. Strategy
General Information
So, a lot of you already knows what we are talking about. But not everyone reads MMO-Champion every day and doesn't look on pages like wowhead.com.
For everyone who missed it: [Reins of the Phosphorescent Stone Drake]
The model of this drake is the common Stone Drake model with little bit different colors.
(Source: MMO-Champion database)
The reins drops from the NPC Aeonaxx.
You have a 100% dropchance on the drake, so if you kill Aeonaxx you will get it.
The NPC itself is a level 85 elite rare dragon, his size is rather big, he has ~770.000 hitpoints and will occasional spawn adds while engaged.
He is located in the new cataclysm zone Deepholm.
Important: You will need to mount him to get into combat, he will be friendly before. So watch out for this sign.
Well, I have to admit that there are some difficulties when it comes to the spawnpoints of this NPC.
There are confirmed spawnpoints which I will talk about first and give them numbers so we don't loose the overview.
Spawnpoint Nr.1
This is the spawnpoint which is 100% confirmed by a lot of people. I also saw him there.
The location is shown on the two pictures below:
Coordinats / Map location
Ingame Place
The drake spawns midair in the blue circle in the picture over the stoneformation on the ground.
After his spawn there, he will start to fly up and then around the tempel.
If he spawns there, you have to be fast since most of the campers are there and wait for him.
Spawnpoint Nr.2
This spawnpoint is also confirmed by various people.
Coordinats / Map location
Ingame Place
Aeonaxx spawns right under this big floating rock in the air.
Spawnpoint Nr.3 and 4
First of, I can't confirm these two spawnpoints but some people claim they can.
Since they aren't fare away from the other two, you can easily check them out.
It is said that he will spawn right in front of the stone holes in the Tempel of Earth.
If you look around the temple, you will fast notice that there is also another stone formation like this on the northeastern side, so it seems obvious that this is also a spawnpoint.
But like I told, there are not really any proofs of Aeonaxx spawning there.
Spawnpoint Nr. 5
This spawnpoint is also confirmed by some users on pages like wowhead.com so I will post it here.
Like Nr.3 + 4 it is also located at the western / southwestern side of the temple so it can't be bad to take a look at it.
Coordinats / Map location
Ingame Place
Again, it will spawn near the blue circle so just watch out there. This spawnpoint seems pretty high so don't wonder if he doesn't appear below you while you are camping, also watch above you! (And don't follow your Fortune Card: "Never look up when there are flying mounts above you." -> Look up!)
Other spawnpoints:
There is a theorie about Aeonaxx spawning in the areas where the other Stone Drakes and especially Aeosera are located.
But I will come to theories later on, so just take a look on these possible spawn points but don't take them for sure, there is again no actually proof for them.
The fight
First of, I sadly don't have screenshots of the fight by myself since I didn't get my hands onto it yet and I don't want to use screenshots from other persons without asking them if it is okay to use. I asked two persons, one being a guildmate, but they didn't made any when they downed him.
So, if you really want to know how it looks like, then I give you the advice to search with google or any other site for them, you will find quite a lot!
I will of course update this section if I finally get my kill or if someone allows me to use their screenshots.
I removed the outdated part with the bugged combat here.
You have to mount him and then he will start flying in a random direction - a lot faster then before. You can target him without problems and you can use your normal range abilitys now as a hunter (not like before, there were a lot of targeting issues and hunter had to melee). He will spawn whelps through the combat which you can kill quite fast (~7k hitpoints). Don't let too many spawn, otherwise you will take a bit of damage. You have to do 770k damage, there is no enrage or anything else like this.
Thats it.
Nothing special about it other then you have to mount him.
After his health reaches zero it's over and you will fly slowly towards the ground with a parachute buff. Just loot your awesome mount and give it a ride.
Some additions:
It might be hard for players below level 83 / 84 because you will suffer a lot of damage by the welps and with the targeting issues it will take you some time to get him down.
I would suggest you to level to 85 before camping him, just to be sure to get him without any problems. And here the second thing comes.
If you fail or disconnect, he will despawn. So now imagin you camped him for a long period (like 200 hours), you finally get onto him and then you die. After rushing towards your dead body you start searching for him but he isn't there anymore. He is back to his respawn timer and you will have to wait again.
So it is really a wise thing to level first and then try to get him. With the disconnects... Yeah, I'm sure this is one of the badest things which could happen. So just prey and take him down fast. There is no sure way to avoid this. =/
Only you will get the mount, even when grouped.
Okay. Nothing in this section is really proven yet (and might not be anytime).
So please don't call me out because of these.
Respawn Timer
There is no set respawn timer and this is a lot tougher then the Time-Lost because you might not see any sign of him through a week.
It is possible, that it is 6 hours up to 168 hours. If it is affected by the server maintainance is not really known.
So if you camp him, just make sure you really have the time.
There are also thoughts if he shares a spawn timer with some / one / all the other rare mobs in Deepholm, but this is quite unrealistic because they are often reported being up after / before a short period of time when he was spotted.
But just to say, the other rare mobs are:
Jadefang (I will say some additional things to this one later)
Terborus Big red worm infront of the cage in the north. Lv 83 Raremob with 80,522 hitpoints.
Golgarok Stone giant in the quaking fields. Lv 83 Raremob with 134,202 hitpoints.
Xariona Big dragon flying along the stone circle high above in deepholm. Lv 85 Rare Elite with a few million hitpoints.
Spawn points + routes
Like I mentioned before, there are some confirmed spawnpoints and some rumoured ones.
I will explain the point which is in my opinion the best one to camp later in the Strategie section.
It seems like there are a lot of people trying to figure out where he spawns and which routes he take so we just have to be patient and they will give us a clear picture.
The expansion is only two and a half week on life and there are a lot of people looking for it so sooner or later they will get all the infos they need to draw a clear picture about everything connected with this drake.
The bat
There are some funny / strange things going on with a little level 15 bat spawning at the spawnpoints of Aeonaxx.
They drop no loot when killed and obviously survived the cataclysm and left their habitat, which was in Shadowfang keep.
If they share a spawntimer with him is unknown but a lot of people think that it is just a placeholder for another spawn which shares it, but well.
It's a really strange thing which all of the campers are wondering about.
We will see what happens to this one. Also it isn't clear if you should kill them. Maybe they are something like a minion of Aeonaxx to see if there is someone waiting for him or not and if they are killed he will not spawn. ^^ That would be a rather rude joke of blizzard, but who knows...
So now you know a lot about this guy and might have a few ideas what is waiting if you decide to wait for a nice little ride in deepholm.
If you still want to give this mount a chance and aren't discouraged yet, then I will tell you what to do.
First of, the camping position.
In my opinion, the one I'm going to show you is a really good position because you have all the 5 spawnpoints on the south / south-western side of the temple in your range.
Coordinats / Map location
Ingame Place
It is quite near to the stonecore entrance like you see here.
As soon as it comes to things like: "How much time should i spend there?" -> I'm quite clueless. Just to give you an example, I now camped for over 200 hours and didn't get it yet. So just prepare for a long time or make something like daily sessions. For example, you just camp there for 2 hours every day from 10-12 am / pm or whatever. Just make sure you feel comfortable with it and everything is all right.
What is this?
If you don't know it, you can check the MMO-Champion post about the rare spawns or read my short explanation: It is the most important thing. You want it!
This addon tracks if there are any NPC's around you which you (or the general settings) added to the list and will warn you.
You will get a 3D-Portrait of the Mob, it will set a raid icon on it and you can target it.
This is one of the most important things because it will even alert you if you aren't at your computer at this moment.
A picture of it in action:
(My second miss of the drake, it got mounted quite fast and I wasn't able to follow)
You can download this addon from the addonsite of your trust.
For example you can download it from curse.com: Download-Link
As soon as you did this, you can enter the configuration menu either trough Interface -> Addons.
Under "Search" you then have to add the NPC-ID and a name. The name doesn't matter, just choose something you like.
For Aeonaxx, the ID is 50062 out of combat and 51236 as soon as he is engaged.
Add both of these IDs in your list with a name you want and you are ready.
It will look like this:
Important note: If you already saw Aeonaxx, you might have to clear your cache folder. You can do this by simply go to your WoW folder and delete the complete "Cache" folder you will find there. You should do this everytime when you saw him, it will be marked by a red cross in your NPCScan if you already cached him.
Another quite useful thing: You can use sharedmedia addons to import other sounds to your NPCScan, for example you could set a song / an annoying sound to it so you will really hear it even if you are afk at the moment of his spawn.
Removed the macro part since it is outdated and no longer works!
Other campers
You will see quite some people while camping this drake.
But don't get annoyed or angry. They will either get bored really fast or will search for another point to camp.
Just treat them good, you never know who will get this mount next time and maybe they share some of their information with you.
It's also a wise thing to talk a little bit with them (again: be kind) and you will see that alot of them just come by for a quick look.
I talked with a lot of other people and only one or two were hard-time campers. The others wished me luck after I told them how long I was camping and went away.
In the end, you will need a lot of patience and the ability to handle with it, if you miss it.
Now you know a lot about Aeonaxx, the fight, where you should camp and which addon you should use.
But I still want to tell you some things.
Actually, if you are for such a long time in deepholm, you will get bored.
So maybe you will want to look out for some of the other rare spawns, if they are up and just fly a round through the area.
But please: Be careful with this.
He might spawn in these few moments you aren't arount and this will be quite discouraging.
I know what I talk about because I missed him the second time when I was on a quick look for Jadefang and came back to get my addon roaring in a deep voice and some heavy metal soundtrack to gather my attention, only to see him already tagged.
But if you want to get some alternation Jadefang is quite a nice one to go.
It is a little rare spider which is located in the Crumbling Depths.
He will drop a little companion pet and is tamable by hunters.
Jadefang-Link - If you follow this link you will get a lot of information about the mob and it is quite well explained how to get there. Short version: You need to accept a daily quest (which is not uptime all the time, so just hold it in your questlog once you get it) and shoot yourself up to the hole where he lives.
He looks like this:
Of course the other two rares are also a doable thing, only Xariona isn't really soloable so it would take a long time.
They all drop blue BoE items which can be sold for a quite good price on the auction house. Only Jadefang drops the minipet, nothing else.
The ID's to set at your NPSscan:
Jadefang: 49822
Terborus: 50060
Golgarok: 50059
Xariona: 50061
I think this is at the moment all I can tell you.
It's quite a lot of information so use it wisely and you might soon ride on a new awesome mount.
If you have any questions (as soon as the guides will get released) it's a pleasure for me to aid you, so don't hesitate and ask freely.
I wish all of you a merry christmas and soon a happy new year.
Maybe some of us will get a chance for a ride on this companion before, as a christmas present for example.
And don't give up! You will get it if you just stick to it.


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text: There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket. We've scoured the internet for the best, quirkiest, most innovative examples of science-inspired Lego creations. We're featuring some of our favorites here, along with an explanation of the science behind them, including a space shuttle, MRI machine, particle collider and mushroom cloud. If you have a favorite we've missed, let us know in the comments. Above: Curiosity Chemist Tim Goddard built this Lego model of the Mars Science Laboratory, also known as Curiosity, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first space flight and the last Shuttle mission. The model was displayed at the National Space Center in the U.K. NASA launched the nearly 2,000-pound Curiosity rover on Nov. 26, 2011 to scour the red planet for evidence that it can, or did, support life. "We're not looking for life per se. We're one step before that," said deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada of the Mars Science Laboratory. Evidence of water in lakes and rivers suggests Mars may have been "a friendly place for life," he said. With Curiosity, scientists will be looking for water and phosphorus, an element found in cells. They'll also be able to examine Martian hazards, like cosmic rays, solar particles and ultraviolet radiation, which may have killed past life or could be dangerous to humans when we visit the planet. On on Aug. 6, the self-steering rover will parachute down to Gate Crater, which is "like the layers in the Grand Canyon, a sequence of rocks laid out before you that traverse a lot of geologic history," planetary scientist John Mustard of Brown University, a 20-year veteran of Mars missions, told Wired Science in July. "Layer by layer, Curiosity's going to climb from the bottom and up through Martian time." Curiosity's pimped out with six-wheel drive, a rocker-bogie suspension drive, a high-tech pair of "eyes" -- its Mast Camera -- and a ChemCam laser that can vaporize and analyze rocks from about 30 feet away. It can crawl over roadblocks 29 inches high and can get up to whopping speeds of about one-twentieth of a mile per hour. But, it'll spend most of its 23-month excursion cruising along at about two hundredths of a mile per hour, when it's not drilling or examining interesting rocks, that is. Scientists hope Curiosity will gather evidence of how Mars morphed from a possibly wet, life-friendly place to a dry, cold inhospitable planet. "If we have a detailed record of that whole evolution, that would be a huge success," Vasavada said. Images: 1) Tim Goddard / Flickr. 2) Artist's concept of Curiosity rover, NASA / JPL-Caltech.Genetic Code Nannan Zhang built this DNA sculpture out of Lego bionicle claws as a gift to geneticist Gary Stormo, with whom Zhang did genetics research for this undergraduate thesis. Deoxyrybonucleic acid, better known by its street name DNA, has been called (pun intended) life's building block. The spiral ladder-shaped molecule holds our most personal information: the blueprints that build the proteins that make up our cells, tissues and organs. There may be a stretch of DNA with your name on it. DNA can be used against you in a court of law. It can also tell you who's your daddy. More than a decade ago, scientists first sequenced the human genome, an endeavor that cost $2.7 billion to complete. In January, Life Technologies, a biotechnology company, announced they could sequence an entire genome in about a day for less than $1,000. Although scientists can tell you your genetic alphabet -- the approximately three billion A's, T's, G's and C's that make up your DNA -- they're still trying to understand what it all means. So far, they've mostly focused on genes, the parts of the code that spell out how to build proteins. But genes only make up about 1.5 percent of the genome. Scientists still don't fully understand what our DNA's (almost) 99 percent is doing. Regulatory sequences, for example, help determine when genes are turned on or off. Though they don't code for proteins, they control what genes are used in what context, which is important for development, says bioinformatician Jim Kent of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Images: 1) DNA molecule designed by Nannan Zhang. Nannan Zhang 2) Nannan Zhang's Lego representation of Gary Stormo's genetics laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. Nannan Zhang.Anatomy Lab Nannan Zhang, who's been featured in Wired previously for his post-apocalyptic Lego creation, built the anatomy classroom as a gift to his anatomy professors at UT Southwestern Medical School. The first-year medical school student tried to make the Lego version of his anatomy lab as realistic as possible by including its instructors (the anatomists), blackboards, overhead lamps, radiographs, and metallic cadaver tanks, which (in real life) have a lever that retracts the diseased bodies into a holding chamber. But the MiniFigs don't bear any resemblance to the real anatomists. "They don't give any idea how old we are," human anatomy course director Barry Botterman quipped. Anatomy is unique among medical school classes because students "are really seeing their first patient," Botterman said. "Probably they'll spend more time with that cadaver than they will any of the patients they'll see in the future. They get to know that cadaver pretty well." With it, students not only learn about the structure of the human body, but they also get to see how different diseases affect it. At UT, there are roughly 60 cadavers per 240 students. Among the cadavers they study, students may get to see how cancer and kidney disease affect the body. In total, they spend about 180 hours looking closely at the body's heart, veins, arteries, lungs, joints, tendons, tissues and other organs. They start off with the muscles of the back, hands and arms. They then move up toward the head, which Zhang says is probably the most complicated area to dissect because of its vast number of nerves, blood vessels and small muscles. After the head, the students course down the body until they reach the toes. "Seeing what everything you learn about in textbooks looks like in real life -- that's something I'll never forget," Zhang said. Image: UTSW Anatomists by Nannan Zhang / Flickr.Antikythera Mechanism Andrew Carol built this working Lego-version of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism. Discovered in the early 1900s by a group of underwater sponge divers, the real Antikythera mechanism may be the world's oldest analog computer. The roughly 2,000-year-old Babylonian device may have displayed the motions of the sun, moon and five planets and accurately predicted eclipses and other celestial events. The National Archeological Museum in Athens houses what's left of the Antikythera Mechanism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk Image: Andrew Carol's Lego version of the Antikythera Mechanism. Andrew Carol. Video: Nature Video Channel / YouTube.The Kidney Medical illustrator Maya Shoemaker built this kidney model after she was dubbed "kidney" for dressing up like the bean-shaped organ for Halloween. "I happen to love the organ for its shape and cuteness," she wrote in an e-mail. "The kidney seemed like a good option for my first anatomical Lego study because of the level of detail needed to show off the parts -- it held up well at a small resolution of bricks." The kidney removes waste products and excess water. It balances the body's electrolytes and produces hormones that affect blood pressure and the production of red blood cells and vitamin D, which is important for healthy bones. Without your two kidneys, you'd die. Each one is about the size of a fist and weighs between four and six ounces, depending on your gender. Kidneys have about 1 million tiny filters called nephrons, which rid the blood of excess ions (sodium, potassium, chloride), glucose and small proteins. These organs filter about 50 gallons of fluid each day. Most is reabsorbed into the body, while the rest leaves as urine. Chronic kidney disease is a serious health issue: 26 million Americans have kidney disease, according to the National Kidney Foundation. And last year, surgeons performed more than 15,000 kidney transplants in the U.S., according the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. People with kidney disease have a higher risk of high blood pressure and heart disease. Image: Maya Shoemaker.Magnetic Resonance Imaging Raymond Bull says he started putting together just the shell of this model and realized he could build an entire MRI machine around it. He's not a scientist, but he's always been interested in science and science fiction, he says. MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, has been around since Dr. Raymond Damanian built Indominatable, the first scanner, in the late 1970s. Since then, the technology has become quite common in clinical and research settings. Chances are you know someone who's been in one of these giant contraptions. Inside the bore, the donut-shaped cylinder that houses the MRI machine's superconducting magnet, hydrogen reacts to the magnet's magnetic field. Normally hydrogen atoms spin in random directions, creating a tiny magnetic field of their own. (Scientists focus on hydrogen because it's so abundant in cells.) The MRI's magnetic field is much stronger, causing them to shift. About half align with the magnetic field, and about half in the opposite direction. But not every atom cancels each other out. A few more line up with the magnetic field because this requires less energy. When the MRI's radio transceiver sends out radio waves tuned to hydrogen, these unmatched atoms absorb energy and flip. Atoms flip back and release energy when the radio waves are turned off. The MRI scanner "reads" that energy, and, using math, coverts the signal into an image of your stomach, lungs, brain, tendons, etc. "It's one of the few techniques that produces such exquisite images of the soft tissues in the body," said Joseph Hornak, who directs the Rochester Institute of Technology's Magnetic Resonance Laboratory. With MRI, doctors can take high-resolution pictures of your muscles without having to cut you open. The images can help them diagnose multiple sclerosis, tendonitis, stroke and cancer. MRI can also be used to image flowing blood and to study brain function. It's even been used assess the quality of wine and wine grapes and to study tarantulas' heartbeats. In hospitals, MRI magnets tend to be around three tesla or 30,000 gauss, the units for measuring magnetic strength. (The Earth's magnetic field, by comparison, is about 0.5 gauss.) But researchers use 7-tesla machines because stronger magnets tend to produce higher-quality images. Some worry these strong magnetic fields could be harmful, but Hornak says the real danger stems from not being careful around an MRI machine. Metal objects like keys, pens, scissors and jewelry can become deadly projectiles when they get pulled into the magnet, Hornak says. Some people, however, have reported feeling dizzy in stronger, research-grade MRI machines. The magnetic field might affect the endolymph, or fluid, in the semicircular canals, structures in the inner ear involved in balance, according to a study in the October issue of Current Biology. The magnetic field slightly tugs at this fluid, which deflects the ear's tiny motion sensors. This deflection can make people feel like they're on a very slow merry-go-round, says engineer and lead author Dale Roberts of Johns Hopkins University. But most people getting an MRI won't ever feel this because the force produced by magnets used in clinical settings is so weak. The force your ear feels when you move your head, for example, is much stronger. For now, the implications of Roberts' findings might be more pertinent to scientists studying the brain than to patients getting an MRI. "What makes it very important (even more so than the fact that MRI can make you dizzy) is that MRI has become a widespread tool to study brain function. This study shows that MRI may itself actually be affecting the brain function we are trying to measure," wrote neurologist Mark Walker of Case Western University in an e-mail. Images: 1) Raymond Bull / Flickr. 2) MRI machine at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. US Navy / Wikimedia Commons.Bombs & Mushroom Clouds Bruce Lowell based his Lego mushroom cloud (above) on a Lego sphere he built about 10 years ago, popularly known as the Lowell sphere. (He didn't call it that, he says.) While making a Lego doughnut, he decided to plug the doughnut hole, and when he did that, "it looked enough like a mushroom cloud to make a full one," he wrote in an e-mail. "I'm a really big fan of the television show 24 which had a few nuclear explosions in its run, so I'm sure the idea was hanging around in my subconscious waiting to come out." Nuclear weapons come in several explosive varieties, including fusion and fission bombs. Hiroshima's "Little Boy" and Nagazaki's "Fat Man," perhaps the most famous bombs in history, were both fission bombs. Nuclear fission happens when an atom splits in two. As it fisses, it also spits out neutrons and gamma rays, a type of nuclear radiation. Fusion happens when two atoms merge to form a bigger one. (The sun makes helium by melding two hydrogen atoms together.) Both reactions release tremendous amounts of energy. When "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" exploded in 1945, they killed thousands of people as they created frantic plumes of dust and water droplets. Mushroom-shaped clouds also form during volcanic eruptions, other types of strong explosions, and even when peat moss release their spores. For example, when a bomb explodes, it forms a hot, buoyant gas bubble, or fireball, that rises and expands quickly, picking up dust and debris along the way to form the stem. As it expands, it creates a shock wave. The hot bubble forms a rolling flow of hot material rising in the center, which then rolls down at the edges to form the mushroom cap, says Dave Dearborn of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The cloud's size and height depends on the explosion's strength. These clouds can rise at speeds of about 300 mph and can change color from red brown to white as water condenses. Images: 1) Bruce Lowell / Flickr. 2) Nuclear weapon test Romeo (yield 11 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Castle. Romeo was the first nuclear test conducted on a barge. The barge was located in the Bravo crater. Department of Defense / Wikipedia.Fire For artist Cole Blaq, fire symbolizes inspiration because its energy "shines far and releases heat. This is the energy that keeps me moving," he wrote in an e-mail. Fire is a chemical reaction between oxygen and a fuel, like gasoline, alcohol or wood, that's heated to its ignition temperature. As the fuel heats up, it releases volatile gases that then react with oxygen and start burning. Fires are self-perpetuating because the heat they give off kindles the chemical reaction between oxygen and the fuel, keeping it going. Without oxygen, heat or fuel, fires die. For example, splashing water on a flame lowers the temperature. Fires get a bad reputation for destroying homes and killing people. But not all fire is bad. In forests, fires help clear dead brush and some trees need fire to help them release their seeds. Images: The Burn by Cole Blaq / Flickr.Space Shuttle Ed Diment, Annie Diment and their colleagues, OptimalControl and Euphonica, built this 1:37 scale model of Space Shuttle Discovery for display at the National Space Center in Leicester, U.K. The model shows the shuttle's external tank and two solid rocket boosters. NASA's space shuttle program launched on April 12, 1981 as Shuttle Columbia took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle program's spacecraft were the first reusable space-planes in orbit, and astronauts took the first space walk during Shuttle Columbia. For astronauts, weightlessness and the tight living conditions were among the biggest challenges. While in orbit, astronauts are in a constant free fall around Earth. They can't sit, pour a glass of water or use the bathroom the way you would at home. "The bottom line is that things float," Discovery astronaut Dan Bursch said. And then there's the tight living quarters. "It's like a family trip and never getting out of the Winnebago for six months," Bursch said. During its 30-year run, the program carried astronauts to space; put satellites into orbit; recovered and repaired satellites; and helped build the International Space Station, the largest structure in space. The shuttles orbited the Earth almost 21,000 times and spent more than 1,320 days in space. The five spacecraft, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavor and Atlantis, flew a total of 135 missions between 1981 and July 21, 2011, when Atlantis completed the program's final mission after landing at Kennedy Space Center. The total cost of the shuttle program was $113.7 billion (not adjusted for inflation). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bluQ4eOeBwo Images: 1) Optimal Control / Flickr. 2) Space Shuttle Discovery heads toward the International Space Station. NASA / Wikipedia. Video: Vinciverse / Youtube.Space Rockets Certified Lego Professional Ryan McNaught's Saturn V rocket model (above) stands almost 19 feet tall. Neil Armstrong traveled to the moon with the help of a Saturn V, a type of rocket used in the 1960s and 1970s for the Apollo missions. These rockets were about 360 feet tall, or taller than the Statue of Liberty, and weighed the equivalent of about 400 elephants. Although many people associate rockets with space, the word rocket can refer to any engine or to a vehicle that uses an engine. NASA has used rockets to launch astronauts into space, put satellites into orbit, and send spacecraft to the moon and other planets. Images: Saturn V rocket by Ryan McNaught / Flickr.ATLAS Detector ATLAS is a roughly 150-foot long, 7,000-ton particle detector at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN scientists are using ATLAS to study the "particle zoo," which includes fundamental particles like quarks, muons and neutrinos, and the elusive Higgs boson. They're also hoping they might discover new, exotic ones, like squarks, sleptons or gluinos. "Just the same way an atom is built as a core and electrons, the particles in the core are build on something too," physicist Sascha Mehlhase said. So they're accelerating protons, positively charged atomic particles, and then they colliding them. When these subatomic particles collide, they can create new ones. "We have an equation by Mr. Albert Einstein, E=mc2, that says if you have a lot of energy, that can be converted into a new particle, a new mass," Mehlhase said. Some of these particles decay within fractions of a second, while they're still inside the beam pipe where they collided. So ATLAS measures the traces these particles leave behind, and then scientists use the signals to deduce what particles the collision created. Mehlhase built the Lego ATLAS model to help spark interest in particle physics in people visiting the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, where he works. Plus, building a replica out of the Danish toy bricks seemed appropriate. He hopes students will build Lego ATLAS models of their own so they can learn what the detector does through putting it together. For example, as they're building the large, white circular outer wheels, an instructor would tell them these are the muon chambers, which detect muons, negatively charged particles that are slightly heavier than electrons. "A muon is like the big brother of the electron," Mehlhase said. Unlike other particles, muons don't lose much energy as they move through the inner layers of the detector, so scientists assume they are the only particles able to make it this far out from the center. Images: 1) Lego ATLAS by Sascha Melhase. Sascha Melhase. 2) ATLAS' muon chamber. ATLAS Experiment © 2012 CERN.Robotic Limb Can your Legos hold a bottle or pour water out of a cup? Max Shepherd's can. The UNC biomedical engineering major build a robotic Lego arm that mimics a human arm and hand's range of motion. He's been building models since he was 10 years old. His Lego limb can flex and spread its fingers, curl its thumb, make a fist, rotate its wrist, and in case you're wondering, yes it can flip people off. "But I'm not going to put that in the video," Shepherd said. The model is built around the constraints of Legos, so it's not meant to function as a prosthetic, but it does showcase how intricate movement can be, Shepherd says. Some fans have told him they'd never thought about how mechanically complex human hands and arms were until seeing his Lego version. The hand is one of the most intricate parts of the body. Our fingertips have hundreds of nerve endings that feed back information about the environment, like pressure and temperature, back to the brain. Part of the challenge in developing prosthetics is building a neural-prosthetic interface to re-establish these connections after they've been severed due to amputation. New research suggests scientists are getting closer to overcoming this barrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3IiXvzrds Images and video: Max Shepherd.Bones Artist Cole Blaq's model of a spine, called Tuff to the Bones (above), is meant to depict "anatomy and the perception of genetic science from a view of a simple person," he wrote in an e-mail. The title could also imply resilience. Scientists who study back pain must have plenty of that because studying back pain is well ... a pain. It's complicated and experts haven't quite figured out what causes it. But William Marras, the director of Ohio State University's Biodynamics Laboratory, is developing a personalized, "dynamic MRI," which images how human spines move and react in different scenarios like lifting a box, pushing a cart, twisting or bending. The model is based on measurements taken from individual patients as they move. The technology could help researchers understand the root causes of back pain, which afflicts up to 80 percent of people at least once in their lives. Marras and his staff measure the patient's body. They stick electrodes on the patient's torso and place a motion-sensitive device around their lower back. They put markers on a patient's joints to figure out how their arms and legs move. When a patient walks or raises his arms, electrodes and sensors record those movements. The researchers also use MRIs and CT scans to give them an accurate picture of the patient's tissues and bones. They integrate all the data and construct a 3-dimensional model of the spine. The model can give them insights into how specific or repetitive movements cause muscle stress. They can then use that information to advice companies on how to design their workplace to minimize injury or surgeons on the best course of treatment for patients. Some of Marras' research is focused on preventing work-related injuries in the car industry, so he brings workers into the lab, where they can simulate the production process with cars and tools they'd have at the factory. If he's assessing a patient considering surgery, he'll have him perform everyday activities like bending, twisting and lifting. Marras and his staff also get feedback from the patient about how he/she is feeling. Researchers who use cadaver spines or computer-based models don't get that information. Personalized spine modeling could increase the success rates for spinal surgery, which tends to leave patients "no better or worse" in 50 percent of cases, Marras says. "You can make all your mistakes on a computer before going and trying it out on a person," he said. For years, researchers have studied back pain generally, asking patients if they're doing too much heavy lifting, whether back pain runs in their family, or if they're sitting in front of a computer for too long, Marras says. They've relied on computer models or cadaver spines to study how the spine reacts to stress and pressure. These models can simulate daily activities, provided researchers know what muscles are involved, says David Moody, who developed a spine simulator as part of a collaboration at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco to test how muscle strain and posture contribute to back pain. The problem is that researchers often lack this information. Plus, "movement is the key to life," Marras said. "A lot of these models that are out there don't really assess what happens when people move," which could be a recipe for misunderstanding what's really happening, he said. Despite its benefits, there's still a long way to go before Marras' system is widely available. He didn't say how much the procedure cost, but he did say it wasn't cheap. Plus, the modeling takes three to four people about a month to complete. He hopes he'll be able to cut that time down significantly over the next few years so the technique can be used more routinely. Until then, the recommendations he's able to make are still based on generalizations based on a few people's personalized scans, in a way that's similar -- though in Marras' opinion superior -- to working with a robotic setup and cadaver spines, which are a scarce resource. The end goal of both approaches, however, is the same: to design personalized treatments. "If I can make detailed models of a handful of people and say, 'Ah ha!' When people do this, this is what happens to the spine, then I can find more general ways to fit that in to a much larger population and come up with much stronger relationships. You'll know what you're talking about as opposed to just having fuzzy ideas as to what the cause and effect is," Marras said. Image: Tuff to the Bone by Cole Blaq. Cole Blaq / Flickr.Genetic Engineering Artist Cole Blaq thinks of his creation, Decode, as a merging of "religion, science, plastic, graffiti, [and] art into one thing -- my expression," he wrote in an email. It's like a "search for the absolute, the search for truth." Through genetic engineering, scientists are searching for ways to introduce, or delete, traits by manipulating an organism's genetic code. In 2006, MIT bioengineers made E. coli, which usually give off a putrid stench, smell like bananas. They inserted genes that allowed the bacteria to make isoamyl acetate, a chemical behind the ripe-banana scent. In 2009, Japanese scientists released Applause, the world's first blue rose. These roses make delphinidin, a pigment common in blue flowers, but not typically found in roses. Scientists are also using genetic engineering to fight diseases like malaria and dengue. They're creating mosquitoes that transmit these diseases less efficiently. They hope these mosquitoes will then breed with native populations and pass along the genes that make them less infectious. But there are ethical concerns with using genetically modified organisms as their effects on native populations aren't fully clear. Image: Decode by Cole Blaq. Cole Blaq / Flickr.Periodic Table This brick model of the periodic table was part of Lego's Make Everything ad campaign, fitting since elements make up everything around us. The periodic table organizes elements, substances made up of one type of atom, according to their properties and behavior. For example, the noble gases -- helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon, are listed together as group 18. They are odorless, colorless gases that aren't very reactive. Elements are arranged from left to right based on atomic number, which refers to the number of protons an element has. Hydrogen, the number 1 element, only has one proton. Carbon has six, and xenon has 86. Typically, the higher the atomic number, the heavier an atom is. Images: 1) Lego ad campaign. Lego. 2) Periodic table of the elements. Wikipedia.Gorillas Barbara J. Chin snapped this photo of Lego gorillas at the Bronx Zoo in New York in July 2011. The brick-based primates were part of a Lego Zoofari Expedition featuring animals that are part Wildlife Conservation Society's preservation efforts. Gorillas are the largest living primates, a group that include monkeys, lemurs, orangutans, chimpanzees and humans. Scientists can identify them by taking close-ups of their noses because no two gorillas have the same one. Males can be up to 6 feet tall and weigh more 200 pounds. Females are smaller: They can be about 5 feet tall and weight around 200 pounds. In the wild, gorillas live around 35 years, but up to 50 in captivity. These mostly herbivorous animals live in central Africa. Gorilla gorilla live in lowland tropical rain forests, while Gorilla berengei live at higher altitudes in mountain slopes, bamboo forests and rain forests. Gorillas live in troops of up to 30. The alpha male, the silverback, is the group's big boss. He helps protect his clan and decides where the group will hunt and move to each day. These hairy animals don't have predators, but humans hunt them for meat, including their hands and heads, which is sold as part of the illegal bushmeat trade. "This has led to the decimation of wild gorillas," said Billy Karesh, the executive vice president of EcoHealth Alliance. "Many human outbreaks of [Ebola hemorrhagic fever] have been traced back to hunters killing infected gorillas." Ecotourism may also pose a threat to these endangered species. There are fewer than 100,000 lowland gorillas in Africa, according to the San Diego Zoo. Images: 1) Lego Gorilla at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Flickr / Barbara J. Chin. 2) Mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Andre Engels / Wikipedia.


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how can I amplify a fungus ITS region which is in the host tissue? my fungus is a biotroph and cannot be cultured, and I have to amplyfy it from the host tissue.
I have extracted the DNA of my infected leaves in which I have both the DNA of the fungus and plant, and I have used primer ITS1 and ITS4, I have got two bands , I extracted the bands from gel, and sequenced them. one was the ITS of plant and the other was the ITS of my fungus.
but is there any other way to amplify only the fungal band?
Submit your paper to J Biol Methods today!
how to amplify a fungus which is in the host tissue
Started by azadeh12345, Nov 07 2012 12:12 AM
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Posted 07 November 2012 - 12:18 AM
If you know the sequence of the fungus, you can design fungus specific primers for the region of interest. If you don't know the sequence, you may need to look at some primer walking where you sequence from a primer, then use that to design another primer further along the DNA which you then sequence from...etc.
Posted 07 November 2012 - 04:15 PM
Fungal ITS specific primers
Check this article
Check this article
Posted 20 November 2012 - 01:44 AM
Thank you , I ordered specific primers for ITS region from the article you suggested


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I've got a new computer and trying to figure out how it works takes up my whole days lately. The basics are there but all the little other things… how to edit sound, what programme to use, leave the realm of the fantastic Cool Edit and enter new digital audio territory…. HEL P!
After having spent most of my day with the new little toy, it was time to go outside and break the addiction habit of spending a lot of time online but also spending too much time on the new computer offline.
We went for a drink and a catch up, a friend and me, and ended up in the basement of a pub in Charlotte Street where one of the most unpretentious comedy clubs resides, once a week. As we entered half way through the show, we had to walk over the stage area to get to our seats, and of course my friend, yes you know who you are 🙂 chooses front row, in a tiny room with only ten other guys.
I'm thinking no!!! Is she serious? Sitting so close to the stage will only mean the comedians will include us in their set!
And they did!
But I don't know if we were the main attraction because we were women in a group of let's say not so tactful men or if it was the fact that me and my friend were both not British, in other words foreigners! In fact we were referred to as foreigners on at least a couple of occasions, or the French people and the Greek people! How exotic, isn't it!?
And since we got in, almost every act was talking about us and to us in their make-up-the-comedy as they were going along. The intimacy of the room was further enhanced when all the other people in the audience were asked to get closer together and to the front, and around us, as if this would be the solution for the lack of atmosphere.
I laughed, we laughed but it was not thanks to the great acts! Sorry guys, but if I go to a comedy club I expect to be entertained without participating with my own commentary and opinions! There was a lot of banter, shouting, humiliation and rudeness on the menu so I started talking back… Since a lot of focus were on me and my friend, where we're from, why we're there, here and what we're doing I thought I had the right to talk back! But I never asked what on earth they were joking about before we got there?
I think the night is called pear shaped, and I now know the reasoning behind the name. Despite having made all this criticism, I think it was a night of success! To understand comedy in another language is a small sign that you understand the language and its nuances, so as a foreigner I might be on the right path and so is my dear French friend, who unfortunately moved back to France.


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Despite its fame as a resplendent island and a leading tourist destination, the secret of Sri Lanka's attraction lies with its people. The spice addicted, cricket crazy and tea drinking people of Sri Lanka are famed for big smiles and a bigger heart. With a culture enriched with three thousand years of knowledge, Buddhism and many a colonial traditions, the Sri Lankan society is a potpourri of religions and races different yet similar in many a ways.
The Sri Lankans all love their food spicy and their tea light; an unavoidable for a country, which produces the world's best spices and tea. Introduced to the country in the 19th century by colonial British Ceylon tea is the best tea in the world while Sri Lanka has also been known for its high quality spices since time immemorial.
In Sri Lanka, cricket is the ultimate passion which draws all the Sri Lankans together irrespective of caste, race and creed.
Other than tea and cricket, gems especially blue sapphires is synonymous with Sri Lanka. Country's gem industry has a long, colorful history. Known also as 'Rathnadeepa' or the land of gems Sri Lanka had been producing brilliant blue Sapphire and red rubies among many other. Along with gems, Sri Lanka had been exporting fine crafted ivory to many royal courts of Europe. Many dainty treasures carved by local artists in ivory are found in the museum in Europe standing witness to the local skills, which is still found after being handed over father to son.


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Stay calm and steady. We Californians are about to hear the word "volatile" so much we could blow our stacks.
With multiple tax initiatives circulating for the signatures necessary to make next November's ballot, California is about to have a tax debate. And that debate won't just be about whether taxes should go up, as several of the measures suggest. You'll also hear a robust debate about whether taxes are too volatile.
What's tax volatility? This is the term used to describe tax systems where the revenues aren't steady and predictable; instead they rise and fall, abruptly and unpredictably. California's tax system is such a system, and many voices -- both Democrats and Republicans -- have blamed the state's budget problems on this volatility.
The argument is that because California taxes rich people more -- and because rich people's incomes can have big variations from year to year -- the state has become too dependent on the volatile tax receipts of the rich. The volatility also creates temptation: in good years, a surge in revenues leads to overspending by the legislature. In bad years, big drops in revenues leads to hurtful cuts.
This argument has become quite fashionable; it's part of the thinking that underpins the Think Long Committee's proposal to cut income tax rates while extending the sales tax to services. A flatter tax system, the theory goes, will produce steadier, more predictable revenues.
There's also a counter-argument: that the volatility of a tax system isn't a problem. It's a feature. Progressive taxation takes more money from people who have it already -- and thus can afford taxes. Flatter systems shift more of the burden of paying programs from those who earn money from investment -- the wealthy -- to those who earn money from work.
But volatility in a tax system is more helpful if it's combined with a budget system that captures its benefits. California has various rainy day funds -- but it needs a larger, strong rainy day fund to capture the tax windfall from good years and apply it to bad years.
As it happens, a rainy day fund proposal was supposed to appear on next year's ballot, with tax proposals. But it was moved to 2014.


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Vanessa Traina Talks Joseph Altuzarra, Alexander Wang, and Her Boyfriend in Intermission's Second Issue
>> The second installment of Swedish magazine Intermission is jam-packed with interviews: Gaia Repossi, Isabel Marant, Joseph Altuzarra, Tabitha Simmons, Waris Ahluwalia, Victoire de Castellane, and Vogue Paris art director Johan Svensson among them — and all are translated from Swedish into English at the back of the issue.
John Scarisbrick photographed and Keegan Singh styled the two covers — one with Hanne Gaby Odiele, and the other Vanessa Traina, who inside talks to Stephanie LaCava about going to high school with Alexander Wang ("He used to cut up these vintage jeans and make us denim skirts. I still have them — and he'd make us T-shirts. We used to place orders every season with him."), consulting for Joseph Altuzarra ("Our relationship is different than most because Joseph and I are so close. As friends, we hang out at least four times a week."), and her boyfriend, Chad Muska ("I was with some girlfriends and he was with a friend of one of my girlfriends and we met at a restaurant one night in LA. That was eight years ago and it slowly evolved into a relationship. He's a street skater. We live together in the West Village, but he also has a studio in Union Square. He's always been into photography, but he's been playing around with it a little more and doing some large-scale work, a mix of photographer and painting. I have his pictures hanging in our bedroom. It's a photo series he did of Kate Moss manipulated and painted different shades of pink.").
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Beneath the seemingly quiet yet party persona of "Jersey Shore" housemate Vinny Guadagnino is a former political aide who once considered going to law school. But now with the success of the hit MTV series, which just recently filmed its third season, Guadagnino is changing his career plans from law to acting.
In a recent interview with New York magazine, the Staten Islander, who previously worked for State Assemblyman Michael Cusick, said that he just wanted the degree and acknowledged the prestige that comes with it .
"I said that if got into Harvard or Yale with my LSAT score," he explained, "then maybe I'd give up on the reality-TV career, but this was back when the show just started. But I didn't, obviously. It was good enough to get into a good school, but my score was nowhere near that. But I don't want to be a lawyer. I have a lawyer now, and I see what he does, and it's not for me."
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Guadagnino also told the magazine that he is now shaping his career as the other "Jersey Shore" housemates are doing appearances and endorsements.
"I'm interested in acting, more than anything," he said. "So I want to dedicate that time to getting coached and getting auditions. But it all has to shape around my long-term goals. An endorsement now might mean that I may not be able to get on a show in a few years, and I don't want to do anything that will blow that chance."
Asked about how the cast members are adjusting to their popularity, Guadagnino said that everyone is loving the moment. "We are all pretty smart kids; you don't see that, but we're not idiots. We can transition the opportunity we're given and transition it to something else."
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People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War
Fred Anderson. A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War. Reprint. The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Anderson sets out to examine New England provincial soldiers and their experiences during what he terms the "last and greatest of America's colonial wars." He considers it a work of social history because of the quantitative data on which it is based but caveats that its focus is a single conflict, the Seven Years' War, as opposed to a long term study. His focus is on ordinary men. His conclusion is that the Seven Years' War was nothing less than world-shaping and thus unifying to the lives it impacted. Their common experience marked them as a unique generation, like others in later times who would be identified with the major events of their lifetime.
He also considers this work to be one of military history because of its focus on war and military service. But he claims an intentional diversion from the classic approaches of military historians whose focus is more on campaigns and the "analysis of generalship." Anderson's focus is the story of the common citizen-soldier inclusive of their shared values and their beliefs concerning war and military service.
He divides his study into three parts. The first section titled "The Contexts of War," provides background for military service of men in Massachusetts. A key conclusion of this section is that "the way in which provincial armed forces were recruited strongly influenced their performance in the field." The second section, "The Experience of War," looks at the details of daily life in the military. Anderson examines both the nature and impact of variables such as diet, shelter, disease, discipline, work, and combat. He concludes that the delta between the experiences of these men before and after military service began was so large that it created a unique frame-of-reference from which they subsequently viewed their experience. The third section, "The Meaning of War," explores in more depth the unique frame of reference possessed by soldiers from Massachusetts and how that remained incomprehensible to both their superiors and British regular officers. Much of the content of the book comes from primary sources of soldier's own accounts.
The audience for this book is those interested in scholarship on America's early history, social history, and military history. It has several special features including five informative appendices. One includes as listing of primary sources predominantly in the form of diaries. Another provides a fascinating summary of troop disorders suffered within the Provincial Army between 1755 and 1759. Anderson has chosen to footnote his work rather than have a separate notes section.
Fred Anderson brings strong academic credentials in fact this work is based on his doctoral dissertation. He received his B.A. from Colorado State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He has taught at Harvard and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently Professor of History. His has also published Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000) and, with Andrew Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (2005). This work is entirely readable and an excellent addition to early American scholarship. Its extensive use of personal accounts adds to its appeal.


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Jan. 27, 2014 — Fairfield University in Connecticut will dedicate a statue of its patron saint, Jesuit St. Robert Bellarmine, in a ceremony coinciding with its 2014 Bellarmine Lecture. Jesuit Father Michael Fahey, scholar in residence at Fairfield and former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, will speak about St. Bellarmine's relevance today.
"It's a unique occasion, to have the annual Bellarmine Lecture coincide with the dedication of a splendid new statue of St. Robert Bellarmine, Jesuit, cardinal and doctor of the church," said Paul F. Lakeland, Ph.D., the Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J. Chair in Catholic Studies and director of the Center for Catholic Studies.
The bronze statue was designed by Will Pupa, artist-in-residence at Jesuit-run Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and stands more than nine feet tall. Following the dedication ceremony on Jan. 28, will be Fr. Fahey's lecture, titled "St. Robert Bellarmine: A Man for Our Time." The Bellarmine Lecture series, sponsored by Fairfield University's Center for Catholic Studies, provides the community with a chance to hear and interact with distinguished Jesuit scholars.
"Renaissance Jesuit Robert Bellarmine, patron saint of Fairfield University, was a controversial yet innovative theologian who stressed biblical and patristic sources to refute Reformation doctrines," said Fr. Fahey. "In the service of the church, he designed the Gregorian calendar, undertook dangerous travels as papal advisor, and in defense of Galileo urged moderation. Had he not at papal conclaves several times refused election, he would have been the first Jesuit pope already in the seventeenth century."
Fr. Fahey has received the John Courtney Murray Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theology. He served as editor of the journal Theological Studies and has published widely in ecclesiology and ecumenism.
For more information about events by Fairfield University's Center for Catholic Studies, visit http://www.fairfield.edu/cs/lectures/. [Source: Fairfield University]


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The best way to maximize your value from a car, regardless of when you buy it, is to drive it until the problems become overwhelming, then trade it in for whatever value you can get out of it. I consider that the first rule of frugal car buying.
The tough question is whether or not it makes sense to buy a new car or a used one. With the new car, you're going to be able to drive it for longer, but with a used car, the price is so much lower. What's the right choice?
Lots of personal finance guides make the absolute assumption that doing anything other than buying a car used is a very foolish move.
Is that a true statement? It's worth digging in a bit to find out.
First of all, what are the relative purchase costs of similar used cars? I used Kelley's Blue Book to get estimates on the prices for an entry-level Toyota Corolla in my area.
A new 2013 Toyota Corolla will cost you $15,530.
A 2008 Toyota Corolla with 75,000 miles on it and in excellent shape will cost you $10,838.
A 2003 Toyota Corolla with 150,000 miles on it and in excellent shape will cost you $6,195.
The question really becomes how reliable each of these cars are. For each one, you'd want to check out a vehicle history report and have a mechanic look at them. If they've been well-maintained, I would estimate you'd get to 200,000 miles with the new one, 225,000 with the medium one, and 250,000 with the old one. That's because a perfectly maintained car that's in excellent shape will always have significant life after you buy it, as the "lemon" issues have been weeded out. This also assumes, of course, that you continue the maintenance.
Thus, with the new car, you're paying $15,530 for 200,000 miles, or $0.08 per mile. With the medium car, you're paying $10,838 for 150,000 miles, or $0.07 per mile. With the old car, you're paying $6,195 for 100,000 miles, or $0.06 per mile.
Per mile, the older car is cheaper. Note that this is just a general trend, and that Edmunds, for example, reports that some new cars are a better bargain, though the models are few and far between.
However, the math doesn't end there.
Insurance is a huge concern. If you're comparing insurance quotes among models of the same car but with different ages, you're going to find that the newer models have a higher insurance cost than the older models. That's because the value of the older models is lower, thus the actual amount you're insuring is lower, too.
As always, it pays to shop around for auto insurance and know what you're buying. The Simple Dollar has a great car insurance guide that's well worth investigating if you're in the market for auto insurance.
There's also the interest question. If you're taking out a car loan for that new car, then you're essentially adding to the cost of that car, tipping the scales even more toward the used car. Even if you have to get a loan for the used car, it's going to be a substantially smaller loan with substantially less interest paid by you.
When you add up all of these factors, a well-maintained used vehicle is clearly the best option for your dollar. Sure, you'll reach the point of needing a replacement faster than you would with a new car, but you're saving far more along the way.


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Beautiful biodiversity! Calendula – yellow, Pineapple Sage – red, Strawberries, Scarlet Chard in back.
Calendula is a terrific January on herb that brightens SoCal Gardens most of the year though they do prefer cool weather and tolerate frost. Yellow, orange, white or bicolor! Spiffy green, green leaves! One blogger refers to them as Sunshine Incarnate! Aka Pot, English or Poet's Marigold ~ Calendula Officinalis, not to be confused with the Tagetes Marigolds used for Nematode suppression. See the Tagetes details
Be ready to give them some room! They grow up to 2′ tall and can take up a good 3′ footprint, plus they self seed, given time will spread if you let them. Plant well back from narrow pathways, or soon you won't be able to get through!
It's easy to grow. If you still have plants from last year, gather seeds, drop them here and there in well drained areas when soil temperatures reach 60 degrees or after last frosts. Cover with about a 1/4″ of soil, and the ones that like that spot will grow themselves! Or transplant babies. They aren't too picky about their soil and are cold hardy to 25 degrees. Scorching heat is not good, so plant sooner or later. They do great in containers! Put them in accent places or where you can see them a lot of the time!
Remove browning lower leaves to keep them looking fresh and let air circulate. They are susceptible to mildew. Deadhead to keep getting flowers!
Most insects avoid the plants, which is in keeping with one of its old uses as the basis for insect sprays, contains pyrethrum. The idea of brewing up calendula tea from the plants' flowers and leaves, and using it as an insecticidal spray, is getting renewed attention based on several recent studies. In Poland, growing calendulas among cabbage resulted in fewer problems with aphids, cabbage worms, and diamondback moths. A recent study in India showed that calendula extract reduced feeding by tobacco cutworms.
The Mexican beetle avoids Bean rows that have Marigold/Calendula growing among them. Calendula repels a number of unwanted soil nematodes and asparagus beetles, but may attract slugs. Plant Calendula with tomatoes and asparagus. Calendula attracts a wide range of pollinators because it provides nectar over the whole growing season.
It is a super trap crop for aphids, whiteflies, and thrips because it exudes a sticky sap that they find more appealing and delicious than nearby crops.
Calendula flowers attract pollinator bees and butterflies! The nectar–along with the pests that it traps–attracts beneficial insects such as ladybugs, hoverflies, and lacewings. Black flies that are attracted are followed by predatory hoverflies that feast on insect pests.
Calendulas also benefit the garden below ground, where they form partnerships with soil-borne fungi that turn the plants into soil-cleaning machines. In China and the USA, calendula has been found to be useful in the restoration of soil contaminated with high levels of cadmium. In Columbia and Spain, cover crops of calendula were found to suppress root-knot nematodes.
Calendula is an excellent multi-functional plant for permaculture fruit tree guilds.
Calendula grows thick and makes a great cover crop. Seed an area, let it grow, turn it under.
Plant Calendula right in the middle of things, between, next to any plant you want to help!
Pests are Aphids, snails, slugs, whiteflies and the cabbage looper. Wash away aphids, remove infested leaves if necessary. Use a vinegar solution to kill them. Toss some organic snail/slug bait around two or three times to remove generations of snails. Where there are holes in the leaves, seek and remove loopers.
The disease is Powdery mildew. No Overhead watering. Mildew can be a problem on a plant you have pinched back to get dense bushy foliage with little air circulation. Best to prevent mildew by including it in your baking soda applications. UC IPM Powdery mildew UC IPM Calendula
Calendula seeds have personality! No two are alike. Saving them is simple! Let them dry on the plant for the most nutrition the mother plant can give them. Select plants with the color you want. Hold a bag underneath the dried flower head, gently break off the seeds. If the seeds don't want to break off easily, let them dry a little longer. Lay them out in a dry place for two to three days to dry completely off the plant.
Gather enough for yourself and to share as gifts or package up for your local Seed Swap! Label your packet, store in a dry cool dark place.
An account, written in 1699, states "The yellow leaves of the flowers are dried and kept throughout Dutchland against winter to put into broths, physicall potions and for divers other purposes, in such quantity that in some Grocers or Spicesellers are to be found barrels filled with them and retailed by the penny or less, insomuch that no broths are well made without dried Marigold." Marigold is another name for Calendula.
Medicinal, of course, depends on whether you like doing that with your plants. I'm not too patient about building my own remedies, though one of these days I might do it. I know Calendula from tubes of goo I buy at the health food store. It's a natural remedy for skin ailments, minor cuts and burns, sunburn, insect bites, diaper rash, dandruff! Use for skin and tummy ailments with dogs, horses, and cows, ear mites in doggies.
Sore throat? It doesn't matter whether it is viral or bacterial infection because Calendula is effective against both! Gargle your tea 2-3 times a day or sip warm calendula tea slowly to get immediate relief. For children, mix honey with the tea and give spoonfuls of it several times a day.
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It increases blood flow to the skin cells, provides antioxidant protection that reduces the appearance of wrinkles and age spots, and even the visibility of scars. Calendula tea is great!
The easiest way to make the tea is to put about a tablespoon of dried calendula flowers in a heat proof mug and pour boiling water over them. Cover with a saucer and let steep for around 15 to 20 minutes.
It has antibacterial properties that make it good in toothpastes, mouthwashes, soaps, and shampoos. It is very effective in killing bacteria that cause everything from gingivitis to cavities. Research has shown that calendula has antioxidant compounds that directly impact your vision, helps prevent macular degeneration and the development of cataracts. Calendula can significantly reduce inflammation discomfort from a cough, joint pain, upset tummy. Add some calendula oil to your skin balm.
If you need a lot of flowers for your remedies, fertilizers high in phosphorus help. Jamaican bat guano is great, but needs to be added to your soil 4 months in advance of planting so it has time to break down for your plant to uptake. Plant densely and deadhead.
Warning: Some people have allergic reactions to high doses of calendula oil. Consult a trained herbalist or medical professional to avoid any major side effects.
Petals of single flowered varieties have better flavor! It's spicy leaves and flowers are added to soups, sprinkled on salads, used as garnishes, in salsas, burritos, scrambled eggs, and frittatas! The yellow pigment of the flowers is used in place of saffron, in fact is called 'Poor man's saffron.' It is tasty good looking in quiche, cake frosting, rice, butter, in or on cream cheese! Add to bread, syrups and conserves. You can dry the flowers and leaves for longer storage, to make winter tea and tonics.
There are tons of calendula varieties with different flower shapes, color combos, dwarfs for containers and borders, single to multi heads! Prince is heat resistant. Pacific Beauty is heat tolerant, has long stems for cutting!
Orange Calendula Flower at Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden, Santa Barbara CA
We are charmed by its beauty and it serves us well. Thank you dear plant.
The Green Bean Connection started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden. All three of Santa Barbara city's community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are often in a fog belt/marine layer most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is. Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!
Love your Mother! Plant bird & bee food! Think grey water! Grow organic!